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The Assembly vote on the text entry jurors in misdemeanor

Written by Administrator Thursday, 30 June 2011 07:05

The National Assembly adopted Tuesday, June 28, on first reading by 298 votes against 198, the bill to the input of jurors in the criminal courts and the reform of juvenile justice.

The National Assembly had completed the review last Thursday of the bill, adopted on May 19 in the Senate. The text is a response to the wishes of the President of the Republic of "closer" of the French justice. There should be a trial basis first in a number of appellate courts, criminal courts are open to "citizens assessors" who will participate in the trial of offenses punishable by not less than five years imprisonment.

To bring more fluidity to the operation of criminal courts congested, the Assembly also decided to reduce from nine to six in the first instance and on appeal twelve to nine the number of jurors of the assize courts.

MIXED REACTIONS

For the Socialist group, George Pau-Langevin denounced a text that "just a fad of the President of the Republic" and includes "two parts that do nothing needs to reform our justice." This text, she also accused "will create confusion in the courts," "will extend the time" and "costly - 30 million - instead of providing the means to be a weak justice" . Marc Dolez (Left Party) has branded "an unnecessary text, dangerous, coming at a bad time." "It responds to electoral considerations" and is "full of distrust of judges," he added, noting that even "threatened to blow up our judicial system."

However, Michel Hunault, the New Centre, welcomed a bill "that is not against the magistrates and will even reconnect citizens with their justice." "We vote with confidence this project, a trust not subject since you have assured that the means are put in this reform," he said in the direction of the Minister of Justice Michel Mercier. Finally, Bernard Gerard (UMP) welcomed the "very important text in line with what our people need including the fight against the correctional court and responding to the rise in juvenile delinquency."